Atop the New York Timeshomepage today is a banner ad for the Broadway play “Shuffle Along” that clicks through directly to this week’s New York Times Magazinestory about “Shuffle Along.” That’s... very synergistic.
In your finally Friday media column: an editor is canned for testicle-related reasons, The New Yorker makes an error, food critic violence is avenged, and debating Gerald Marzorati's successor.
Fortune magazine staff writer Barney Gimbel has reportedly quit amid charges he ripped off entire sections of a New York Times Magazine article, in a plagiarism job a college freshman would be ashamed of.